bachmann who i thought -- saw interviewed and asked whether she thought was what mitt romney did in massachusetts was a bad idea with health care she wouldn't say it. >> two problems. generally, it is early to go after the frontrunner if you are a relatively newish candidate. this is a time when party activists are beginning to pay attention. most voters are paying very little attention. and to the extent they are, the candidates want to make a good first impression. and you don't make a good first impression if the first thing out of your mouth is to attack somebody else. so that's part of the problem. specifically with tim pawlenty, i think he had a problem this week. because he had foreshadowed an attack at the debate over health care, using the term -- sunday morning show on fox of obamneycare which suggested he would use the debate to make a fight over that issue when given the opportunity and given several opportunities to do it, he backed away. and they now believe and recognize that was a mistake. and so later this week, he did go after him. >> the other person who got a lot of oxygen thi